Natalie Anne Knowlton

Natalie Anne Knowlton is a director of special projects at IAALS. She focuses on legal and empirical research and analysis, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and undertaking national outreach and advocacy to enable continuous improvement in practices and procedures for divorce and child custody matters. Formerly, she was Director of the Honoring Families Initiative at IAALS, Manager of the Quality Judges Initiative, and before that as a Research Analyst spanning IAALS' initiatives. She has been at IAALS since April 2006.

Knowlton is a member of the American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Denver Bar Association, and Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She serves on the Governing Board of the Metro Volunteer Lawyers.

Knowlton received her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and a M.A. in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. During her time at DU, she was involved in an International Criminal Tribunal Externship, through which she worked with the United Nations tribunals prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. She then went on to serve as an Independent Contractor for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, where she analyzed closed trial transcripts and witness testimony for the Butare trial team. Knowlton spent three years with the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, including a year as Managing Editor on the 2007-2008 Editorial Board. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2002 with a B.A. in International Affairs.

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Memberships & Affiliations

Governing Board, Metro Volunteer Lawyers

Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Colorado Bar Association

Member, Denver Bar Association

Recent Speaking Engagements

Co-Presenter, ABA Conference on Client-Centric Legal Services: Getting from Here to There, August 2015: “Self-Representation and the Role of Lawyers: A report on the research of IAALS"

Panelist, National Association for Court Management, January 2015: "Recent Research on Self-Represented Litigants"